2/21/03

North Miami City Councilman Jacques Despinosse asked the police
department to eliminate its swimming requirement for recruits because,
he alleged, it eliminated many black candidates. "We can't swim,"
said Despinosse, a Haitian American. "Most of us didn't come on the
Mayflower. We came on slave ships."

[Ed.: As someone with some Cuban blood in him, I find this
unfathomable. If anybody could swim, it would be a
Haitian.]